As the development for fully-autonomous cars ramps up, researchers from Nankai University in China have successfully demonstrated a new technology that allows a person to remotely control a vehicle using only their thoughts, using signals from the brain to control acceleration, braking, and other basic functions.

Arati Prabhakar—director of the Pentagon's advanced research arm DARPA—has revealed a breakthrough achievement in machine mind control. Jan Scheuermann, a 55-year-old quadriplegic woman with electrodes in her brain, has been able to fly an F-35 fighter jet using "nothing but her thoughts."